Posts tagged injuries

• Speed Enforcement Saves Lives

  Karl Truman | April 12, 2010 1:23 PM | 0 CommentsLouisville, KY Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Nobody likes to see the red and blue lights on the highway, but according to the latest statistics from the National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA), more than 13,000 lives are lost in...

• Kentucky State Police Cruiser Collides With SUV

  Daryl T. Dixon | August 28, 2008 1:51 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Kentucky State Police Cruiser collided with an SUV on Wednesday in Laurel County. Ashley Angel was taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital with serious injuries. She was a passenger in the...

• This Article is a Must Read For All Paducah and Western Kentucky Railroad Workers

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 06, 2008 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The following article is written by my Attorney friend, Rick Shapiro. He is discussing Radioactive exposures to Railroad Workers and their rights. He goes into great detail and discusses workers in...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Walgreens for Prescription Error

  Chrissie Cole | October 19, 2007 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A St. Louis woman that began feeling sick and throwing up a month into her pregnancy thought it was nothing more than morning sickness. A month later she learned that the pills she thought were prenatal vitamins were instead a potent chemotherapy drug that killed her unborn child, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Walgreens Co., the pharmacy responsible for the prescription...

• $26 Million Awarded to Family for Birth Injury

  Chrissie Cole | October 13, 2007 6:31 AM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Brockton family won a $26.5 million jury verdict for the birth injury their son sustained that left him brain damaged. He will never walk or talk due to the botched delivery at a Boston teaching hospital.The family finally feels some relief now that they know what caused their 10-year-old son to suffer from cerebral palsy that requires around the clock care for the rest of his life.Prior to...

• Kentucky Attorney General Files Suit Against OxyContin Manufacturer

  Chrissie Cole | October 05, 2007 9:39 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Kentucky Attorney General, Greg Stumbo, announced the filing of a lawsuit against the manufacturer of Oxycontin, a commonly abused narcotic for medical negligence amongst other claims.The lawsuit alleges the manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, misrepresented the risks associated with OxyContin use and seeks to recover damages suffered county and state governments related to widespread addiction in...

• Plant Fined After Man Loses Both Arms

  Lee Coleman | June 14, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  $88,500.00 is what a Jefferson County company is being fined after an accident in January left an employee without both arms. The company Six Sigma Incorporated of Jeffersontown has 15 days to appeal to the Kentucky Department of Labor. Employees according to state law can sue employers for a workplace injury if they can prove the company intended for them to be harmed. Six Sigma was found to...

• McKee Tree Trimmer Dies In Fall From Bucket Truck

  Lee Coleman | June 04, 2007 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A 20 year old McKee resident fell 40 feet to his death Saturday from the bucket of a tree trimming truck. The truck he was working from trimming trees apparently hit a ditch and overturned. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Jackson County deputy coroner. Another person who was in the bucket at the time of the accident was sent to the University of Kentucky Medical Center where he was...

• Mercer Plant Crane Accident Claims Life

  Lee Coleman | April 24, 2007 6:06 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Monday morning a worker was killed in an accident at the Kentucky Utilities E. W. Brown Generating Station Plant in Mercer County. Few details have been released but apparently a worker died when a crane fell on him. Officials would not confirm the identity of the worker or the cause of the accident. This is the same plant a worker died in last month when he fell from a transmission tower at the...

• Mount Sterling Plant Accident Leaves One Dead

  Lee Coleman | April 11, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Monday night a 43 year old Clay City woman was working at Lexington Metals when she was struck in the neck by a piece of steel. She was operating a 1,000 ton machine press that makes bumper parts when a piece broke in the machine. The broken piece shattered when the machine was lowered and a piece hit her on the left side of the neck. The incident happened about 10:10 p.m. She was sent to Mary...